My people I hope you are all super well, today we are talking about one of the best guitarists that has had the history of music and the world we are talking about JIMI HENDRIX, these are big words. Enjoy the report.
Disc:Electric Ladyland.
Year:1968.
These are big words. Little can be said at this point about the man without whom rock music would not be what it is today, without the guitarist whose influence and style marked a before and after in the way of making music and revolutionized any pre-existing conception of the electric instrument. Jimi Hendrix changed the world with his genius and that incredible inhuman, sidereal and almost extrasensory virtue.
“Voodoo Child” is one of his most famous and influential compositions; an electric blues progression taken to a new level with his unprecedented technique and hallucinogenic fingers. The African-American reinvented the sound of his soul and R&B compatriots and used a wah-wah pedal in the opening riff of the song, which gave the sound more elasticity and an enveloping, psychedelic, hot, flamboyant and sexual halo.
About “Voodoo Child” there is a widespread and curious confusion, since Hendrix recorded two songs of practically identical name that have been mistakenly interchanged many times in their different re-releases or incursions in compilations.
On one side is “Voodoo Child”, an extended blues jam recorded by Hendrix and Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell with Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady and Traffic keyboardist Steven Winwood, because the guitarist had had an argument with bassist Noel Redding and decided to leave him out of the piece. Once reconciled, the whole trio recorded this version titled “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”, shorter and more concise for which Hendrix created the new initial riff and varied the lyrics ostensibly, demonstrating that he was also a great vocalist, a facet always overshadowed by his impressive way of playing.
Both songs were recorded on May 3, 1968 at Record Plant Studios in New York, and were included in the last studio album that Jimi Hendrix recorded before his death, the masterful “Electric Ladyland”. Concretely “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”, closed the album, thus constituting the last words pronounced by the electric god. “Electric Ladyland”, reached the top of the American charts and sold a million copies at the time; curiously this song was not a single.
Years later, one of the best white blues-rockers who ever lived and Hendrix's best student, the missed and mourned Stevie Ray Vaughan, paid tribute to his master by recording his own version of this song for his 1984 album “Couldn't Stand The Weather”. Surely the “Son of Voodoo” enjoyed seeing that his teachings had not fallen on deaf ears.
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